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No. 587,386. Patented Aug. 3, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT O F CEQ LOUIS B. BRONSON AND JOHN PARMENTER, OFBELVIDERE, ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 587,386, dated August3, 1897.

Application filed January 9, 1897. Serial No. 618,551. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LOUIS B. BRONSON and J OHN PARMENTER, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Belvidere, in the county of Boone andState of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBelts; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 7

This invention relates to improvements in belts, and has more particularrelation to belts intended for the support of purses, Satchels, andthe-like.

The invention consists of certain novel constructions, all of which willbe hereinafter more particularly set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 represents our invention in use by a lady, and Fig. 2 represents a topplan View of our said improvement.

'A in the drawings represents the belt, and B the purse. This belt Acomprises a belt proper, a, composed of any suitable pivoted andornamental links. One end of said belt is provided with a buckle-plate aand the opposite end with a hook a adapted to be secured to the rear ofsaid plate. This plate is also provided with a plurality of apertures athrough which the upper ends of the pendent rods a are hooked, so thatsaid rods may be turned up in front of the wearer when so desired orpermitted to drop into a pendent position. The lower ends of said rodsare pivotally connected with the top bar I) of the purse or satchel,which may be of any desirable construction.

It will be observed from the foregoing description that when this beltis applied about the waist of the wearer and the purse suspended fromthe armsa it is impossible for the purse to be mislaid or lost orstolen, as it is positively connected to the belt by metallicconnection. At the same time that the purse is so protected it may bereadily raised when so desired to remove any portion of its contentsbecause of the'pivotal connection of the bars a with the plate a. Thisdevice is ornamental as well as useful, as the purse or satchel whensuspended. therefrom hangs naturally in the position it would occupy ifsuspended from an ordinary belt in the usual manner. The purse is alsoso located that it is always convenient to the grasp of the hand and maybe instantly raised and opened when so desired, but cannot be snatchedor torn from the belt except by the employment of great force.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a belt composed of a plurality of metalliclinks, of a buckle for securing said belt about the wearers waist, twopendent rods having their upper ends pivotally mounted on thebuckle-plate, and a purse pivotally secured to the lower ends of saidarms so as to be held in a horizontal position, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination with a belt, of a buckle for securing the same aboutthe wearers waist, two pendent rods having their upper ends pivotallymounted on the buckle-plate and a purse pivotally secured to thelower-ends of said arms so as to be held normally in a horizontalposition, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS B. BRONSON. JOHN PARMENTER. Witnesses:

ToM S. BEOKINGTON, MENNO. MENNENGA.

